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Passwords, Security and other things
Gray i use zone alarm on my home network and found it a bit of a pain to set up to get all 5 computers to see each other. But now it’s up and running it’s absolutely fine. I’ll have a word with my younger brother about that password issue. I’m sure we had the same problem at one point.
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Gray
Only thing would could come up with is that Zone Alarm has disabled autocomplete in the internet options on Internet Explorer.
If you go to Tools > Internet Options on the internet explorer menus and then click the ‘Content’ tab. There you will find an autocomplete button in the bottom half of the dialog box. Click on this and then ensure the check boxes relating to passwords and forms is checked.
Hope this helps,
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Gray
The best that I’ve found, which came from a right computer techy bloke who eats computer jargon for breakfast, lunch and dinner, is Panda Ant-virus at pandasoftware.com they do a good package. I use Platinnum 7 version.
take it easy there is a virus that came out on Monday this week that, apparentley has infected 20% of global computers, a real nasty one.
Who the hell these people are that do this is anyone’s guess, huh more to the point, who’s paying me to do it?Cheers
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The blaster virus is not as bad as people make out….I took some time off recently and the Norton Live update lapsed during that time, I knew that and thought it would be OK…..Anyway yesterday when I renewed I saw that I had the virus msblast.exe.
I went to Norton/Symantecs website and downloaded the fixtool, and used it, after it gave me a green light, it directed me to Microsoft.com and a webpage with a security patch for Windows 2000.
Everything appears to be fine….but just goes to show that its not worth letting your virus updates lapse by a few days! 🙂
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whatver it be i like zonelarm vey much.. i find it the best firewall prog !! 😛
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A firewall and an Anti virus are not the same things – with DSL or broadband you HAVE to use a firewall which blocks access to your computer from the net – in addition to that you must use an anti virus
Nortons internet security combines both – Zonealarms is ok as is Sygate personal security (both freeware) but a determined hacker can get past both. Zone alarms is not anti virus – nor is sygate.
Being connnected 24/7 leaves you very vulnerable to a hack as will be the case if using chat or irc programs – you wont even know you’re hacked cos a good hacker will use your puter as a router to attack others. You also have to run an anti -trojan and anti-keystroke logger program.
Best is a hardware firewall or a linux box running something like Smoothwall.
You should check the connection now and then to see you arent recieiving or sending out massive amts of data – it should show you whats gone in and out.
Dont underestimate the risks here – most of our work is in our drawings . -
A few weeks ago a hacker cleaned out a few bank accounts – what he did was send a fille that had a keystrokelogger – it sent back all the keystrokes that the user made to him , and he then had all their passwords and was able to log into their internet banking provider and do electronic transfers.
The banks here now have an onscreen keypad which you use your mouse on , thus passwords cant be logged or reported . -
I run xp and have broadband………I wouldn’t have the faintest idea how to check if someone was moving data through my machine!! 😮 and without upsetting the computer buffs i’m just thankful every time it turns on in a morning…….. technology gone bonkers 😮
Phil
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Click on the connection icon in the systray – you will see incoming and sent data
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